Excerpt from Voices from Sandover, a play by James Merrill based on Merrill and David Jackson's Ouija board seances. The performance was staged at the Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffee College, produced by Peter Hooten, and directed by Joan Darling. The…
James Merrill reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and his own poem dedicated to Bishop, "Developers at Crystal River" on April 11, 1980 at the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco
James Merrill reads "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and his own poem dedicated to Bishop, "Developers at Crystal River," at the Poetry Center in San Francisco.
Tom Vitale interviews James Merrill on the program "A Moveable Feast." In this episode, titled "Late Settings," Vitale and Merrill discuss the general themes in Merrill's poems and the emotions behind Merrill's writing process, as well as Merrill's…
James Merrill discusses the impetus to his relationship with Washington University's Modern Literature Collection, at the first James Merrill Symposium.
James Merrill reading "In Monument Valley" at the Women's Building at Washington University in St. Louis. Merrill was a writer-in-residence at Washington University during this time.
James Merrill reading "Pola Diva" in translation from the French at Brown Hall at Washington University in St. Louis. The original poem was written by Alexandrian poet Ayoub Sinano.
James Merrill reading his poem "Mandala" in the Women's Building at Washington University. Merrill was a writer-in-residence at Washington University at the time.
